I 🧡 Process Diagrams – Top tips for creating process diagrams

By |2023-04-26T21:45:08+02:00October 6th, 2022|draw.io, feedback, learning|
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This blog is part of our I 🧡 draw.io series, where our users get to tell us why they love draw.io. Follow us on Social media to learn how others use draw.io and hopefully pick up some tips and tricks.

Process Diagrams or Flowcharts are a crucial part of many of our user’s project work in Confluence. One of our users, Vishnu Anilkumar certainly thinks so. Vishnu wrote in a review, “Flowcharts, maps, quick mock-ups, draw.io can do it all. I love it. Thank you, draw.io team, for providing such a tool.

We are happy to help! In fact, to help teams create better Process Diagrams, we’ve assembled some of our top tips into this blog.

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Flowcharts and Process diagrams in Confluence

As our friend Vishnu knows, one of the staple elements of any development process or project is the Flowchart. It clearly defines the start and end points of any project. From HR processes to crisis management diagrams, teams need to build all kinds of different flowcharts. It is truly a fundamental piece of visual communication.

Recognizing how important Flowcharts are, draw.io has positioned the flowchart shape library in the most sought-after use cases. To help further, we gathered together the top tips for any process diagram.

Design with flow in mind:
A clear and concise decision pathway allows others, especially those unfamiliar with the issue, to easily follow the process.

Flow is important

Keep things consistent:
Colors, use case shapes, connector lines, and spacing. Develop a style and stick to it. Mix-and-match diagrams are never a good look.

good vs. bad flow

Think logically:
Every procedure or task usually has a defined sequence or chain of clearly labelled decisions and events. A good diagram will replicate this.

Confusing diagramming

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